Cool. So if the device is ostensibly so old and unusable now, what possible commercial rationale could exist for preventing its use for other ends?

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gruez 2 days ago | parent [-]

If you read my comment carefully, you'd see I'm not objecting to regulations that devices must support programming, only to the argument that such regulations will meaningfully reduce e-waste.

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xerox13ster 2 days ago | parent [-]

You don’t know that because the regulations have never existed. Please try to refrain from unscientific thinking such that there are things you think you can know without experimental verification. This is the thinking of a technological dark age.

	▲	gruez 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		>You don’t know that because the regulations have never existed. Please try to refrain from unscientific thinking You're accusing me of "unscientific thinking", but you're basically making an argument from ignorance? You haven't provided any rebuttals to my argument, and you're basically arguing "we haven't tried so if you try to argue against it you're WRONG".